Snoopchic wrote:I'm supposed to go see him [the doctor] tomorrow, don't know what to say when I go to that either :/
Please see the doc tomorrow regardless of whether you try to do the titration test tonight or not.
With a bit of luck, you will be able to ask the doc to show you the full sleep report. And have him explain what all the graphs and numbers on the sleep study report mean. Ask for a copy of the sleep study report for your records even if you have to pay a few dollars for it. And if you don't understand what the report's data is saying, then post it here and we'll help you understand it.
I just don't see how we can, as humans, all of a sudden not sleep at night!?!
Your sleep did NOT just deteriorate "all of a sudden". People with OSA develop the problem over months or years.
In normal human physiology, our flexible upper airway and it's interaction with our upper palate, our tongue, and our uvula is a bit vulnerable to begin with, but those vulnerable structures are what allows us to speak in human languages. In a normal human being, the muscles that keep the airway open when we are asleep relax, and they relax enough where even a normal human being occasionally has an apnea. But in some people, those muscles relax too much. Or our tongue is a bit larger than normal. Or our upper palate or uvula is a bit longer than normal. Or our upper airway is just smaller than normal. And some combination of these bits of "bad luck" combine and cause our upper airway to repeatedly collapse at night. As we get older and as the OSA continues to not be treated, the airway starts to collapse more and more frequently at night. So several years to several decades later, the untreated OSA leads to our airways collapsing dozens or hundreds of times each night in our sleep.
And each time we have an anpea? We have to arouse ourself just enough to restart the breathing. Over and over again all night long. And the result is that we don't sleep well at night because we don't breathe well at night. And that leads to the excessive daytime sleepiness and the constant need for naps. And with those apneas, our bodies stress out physically: Stress hormones are released with each apnea. The apnea is often associated with an O2 desaturation, which leads to physical stress on both the lungs and the heart, which in turn can lead to additional chronic health problems.
It's not logical. I deal in logic, and there is none to this.
I'm a mathematician. So logic is near and dear to my heart. So let's deal in some logic:
How long have you been taking naps in the daytime because you just don't feel rested or restored when you wake up in the morning? Were you sleeping fine one night and then all of a sudden you were no longer sleeping at night, but napping excessively during the day? Or did your night time sleep slowly deteriorate while you assumed that the extra fatigue and the need for naps was because you were taking care of small childern? (Babies do interfer with sleep, but as the kids grow, the sleep should have a chance to return to normal once the kids are sleeping through the night.)
Where's that incredible fear of anything touching your mouth and nose come from? Is there a specific triggering event somewhere in your childhood? Or have you always been like this? Children can have untreated OSA too. And if you happened to have OSA as a kid, it's not unreasonable to posit that the repeated apnea episodes may be the root of your fear of suffocation.
And what's the best way you can stay healthy and happy enough to take care of your daughter and husband in the way you want to? It is NOT logical to simply say, "I should not have to even try to do CPAP because I don't want to deal with my irrational fear of things touching my face." The logical thing to say here is: Let's talk to the doctor and find out just how bad the OSA is. Let's get a referral to someone who can help me conquer my fear of things touching my nose and mouth so that I can make a real effort to try CPAP.
